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Conducted by HENRY C. BURDETT. 



Edited by J. BRETLAND FARMER, M.A. 



WITH THE CO-OPERATION OF THE FOLLOWING EDITORIAL COMMITTEE:— 



I. E. ARMSTRONG, F.R.S., Professor of Chemistry at the City and Guilds of London Institute for Technical 



Education. 

 V. R. DUNSTAN, F.R.S., Director of the Scientific Department of the Imperial Institute, London. 

 i. F. FITZGERALD, F.R.S., Professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy in the University of Dublin. 

 ;. S. SHERRINGTON, F.R.S., Professor of Physiology in University College, Liverpool. 

 . W. JUDD, C.B., F.R.S., Dean of the Royal College of Science, London. 

 V. J. SOLLAS, F.R.S., Professor of Geology in the University of Oxford, 

 i. B. HOWES, F.Z.S., Professor of Zoology, Royal College of Science, London. 

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APRIL, 1897. 



CONTENTS. 



DN THE PHYSIOLOGY OF REPRODUCTION IN PLANTS. By H. MARSHALL 



WARD, D.Sc, F.R.S., Professor of Botany in the University of Cambridge 

 CONDENSATION AND CRITICAL PHENOMENA (II.). By J. P. KUENEN, Ph.D., 



Professor of Physics in University College, Dundee 

 ^ REMARKABLE ANTICIPATION OF MODERN VIEWS ON EVOLUTION. By 



E. B. POULTON, M.A., F.R.S., Hope Professor of Zoology in the University of Oxford ... 

 FHE DISEASES OF THE SUGAR-CANE. By C. A. BARBER, M.A., late Superintendent 



of Agriculture in the Leeward Isles 

 VIND-SCORPIONS— A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF THE GALEODID/E. By H. M. 



BERNARD, M.A 



FHE CELL-MEMBRANE. By J. REYNOLDS GREEN, Sc.D., F.R.S., Professor of Botany 



to the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain 

 FHE COAGULATION OF THE BLOOD (III.). By W. D. HALLIBURTON, M.D., 



F.R.S., Professor of Physiology in King's College, London 

 DN THE RELATION BETWEEN THE FORM AND THE METABOLISM OF 



THE CELL. By MAX VERWORN, Ph.D., University of Jena 



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